Patents by Inventor Makoto Watanabe

Makoto Watanabe has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20200007812
    Abstract: Provided is a tuner module including: a casing body adapted to house a tuner module board on which a tuner function unit is formed; and at least one antenna connector fixed to the casing body and having a terminal portion of a center electrode connected to the tuner module board, in which the casing body includes a plate-like portion formed with a hole portion into which a screw member is inserted, and a plurality of protrusions is provided apart from each other at a peripheral portion of the hole portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Koki Hino, Toyomi Fujino, Tadashi Imai, Makoto Watanabe, Toshiyuki Sudo
  • Publication number: 20190333662
    Abstract: A grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having an insulating film disposed on a surface thereon. The insulating film having a chemical composition comprising Si, P, O, and at least one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, Mn, and Co. The insulating film has a crystallinity in a range of 20% or more, and a minimum tension provided to the steel sheet by the insulating film at a temperature in a range of 100° C. to 200° C. is 10 MPa or more.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi TERASHIMA, Makoto WATANABE, Toshito TAKAMIYA, Tomoyuki OKUBO
  • Patent number: 10458021
    Abstract: Provided is a treatment solution for chromium-free tension coating that can simultaneously achieve excellent moisture absorption resistance and a high iron loss reduction effect obtained by imparting sufficient tension, by using an inexpensive Ti source instead of expensive Ti chelate. The treatment solution for chromium-free tension coating contains: one or more of phosphates of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn; colloidal silica in an amount of 50 parts by mass to 120 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the phosphate in terms of solid content of SiO2; Ti source in an amount of 30 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the phosphate in terms of solid content of TiO2; and H3PO4, and the number of moles of metallic elements in the phosphate and of phosphorus in the treatment solution satisfy: 0.20?([Mg]+[Ca]+[Ba]+[Sr]+[Zn]+[Mn]+1.5[Al])/[P]?0.45??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Terashima, Makoto Watanabe, Masanori Uesaka, Ryuichi Suehiro, Toshito Takamiya
  • Patent number: 10435791
    Abstract: Provided is a treatment solution for chromium-free tension coating that can simultaneously achieve excellent moisture absorption resistance and a high iron loss reduction effect obtained by imparting sufficient tension, by using an inexpensive Ti source instead of expensive Ti chelate. The treatment solution for chromium-free tension coating contains: one or more of phosphates of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn; colloidal silica in an amount of 50 parts by mass to 120 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the phosphate in terms of solid content of SiO2; Ti source in an amount of 30 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the phosphate in terms of solid content of TiO2; and H3PO4, and the number of moles of metallic elements in the phosphate and of phosphorus in the treatment solution satisfy: 0.20?([Mg]+[Ca]+[Ba]+[Sr]+[Zn]+[Mn]+1.5[Al])/[P]?0.45??(1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Terashima, Makoto Watanabe, Masanori Uesaka, Ryuichi Suehiro, Toshito Takamiya
  • Publication number: 20190301349
    Abstract: Provided is an engine cooling device in which a flow passage switching part, which is provided between an outlet (EFb) of a cooling flow passage (EF) and a radiator and between the outlet (EFb) of the cooling flow passage (EF) and a pump, has valves that perform switching to a radiator connection flow passage or a bypass flow passage according to a temperature of a coolant (W), and a sleeve that is connected in parallel to the valves and is configured to circulate the coolant (W) to both the bypass flow passage and the radiator connection flow passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Sohei Iwamoto, Yasuhiro Kamoshida, Makoto Watanabe, Makoto Nobayashi
  • Publication number: 20190292623
    Abstract: A grain oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a grain oriented electrical steel sheet having a surface and a forsterite film formed on the surface of the steel sheet, wherein a total area percentage of defective parts scattered on the forsterite film is less than 1.5% relative to a surface area of the forsterite film when viewed from above the surface, and methods for evaluating a grain oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a grain oriented electrical steel sheet having a surface and a forsterite film formed on the surface of the steel sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicant: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masayasu NAGOSHI, Tomohiro MATSUSHIMA, Makoto WATANABE, Shigehiro TAKAJO, Toshito TAKAMIYA, Masanori UESAKA, Takashi TERASHIMA
  • Patent number: 10395807
    Abstract: There is provided a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet stably having excellent magnetic characteristics and coating adhesion even when a rapid heating is conducted in a primary recrystallization annealing (decarburization annealing). Concretely, it is a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet provided on its sheet surface with a tension-applying type insulation coating constituted with a coating layer A formed on a steel sheet side and mainly composed of an oxide and a coating layer B formed on a surface side and mainly composed of glass, characterized in that a ratio R (?B/?A) of a tension ?B of the coating layer B on the surface side applied to the steel sheet to a tension ?A of the coating layer on the steel sheet side A applied to the steel sheet is within a range of 1.20-4.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takashi Terashima, Makoto Watanabe, Masanori Uesaka, Ryuichi Suehiro, Toshito Takamiya
  • Publication number: 20190226093
    Abstract: Provided are coated metal, the metal having improved properties due to a novel coating, a coating-forming treatment solution for forming the novel coating, and a method for producing the coated metal that has the novel coating. The coated metal includes metal and a coating formed on the metal. The coating includes Si, P, and O, and at least one selected from the group consisting of Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr, Zn, Al, and Mn. The coating includes a compound having a NASICON-type crystal structure represented by the general formula MIMIV2(MVO4)3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: JFE Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Takashi Terashima, Makoto Watanabe, Toshito Takamiya
  • Patent number: 10361642
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic device including a rotary power generation device using an electret, which is capable of preventing a spiral spring from being wound up or fully extended. The electronic device includes a power generation mechanism including: first rotary member, which is supported in a freely rotatable manner, and has a center of gravity shifted from a rotation center; second rotary member supported in a freely rotatable manner; an elastic member configured to elastically connect the first rotary member and the second rotary member to each other for rotary motions thereof; a stationary member arranged so as to be opposed to the second rotary member; and an electret film formed on a surface of any one of the second rotary member and the stationary member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignees: CITIZEN HOLDINGS CO., LTD., CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kensaku Matsumoto, Takashi Ihara, Makoto Watanabe, Akira Izumi
  • Publication number: 20190218684
    Abstract: There is provided a new and improved method for producing a gallium nitride stacked body that can produce a single-crystal layer with few crystal defects, the method including: an intermediate layer formation step of forming an intermediate layer (12) of gallium nitride with random crystal orientations on a substrate (11); and a single-crystal layer formation step of forming a single-crystal layer (13) of gallium nitride on the intermediate layer (12) by a liquid phase epitaxial growth method. Also the intermediate layer (12) may be formed by a liquid phase epitaxial growth method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: DEXERIALS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Makoto WATANABE, Shinya AKIYAMA
  • Patent number: 10348219
    Abstract: A board arrangement structure includes a housing, a first board fastened to the housing, a second board arranged in parallel enabling, relative movement with respect to the first board, an electrically charged film, a counter electrode, and an output part outputting electric power generated between the electrically charged film and the counter electrode, at least one of the electrically charged film and the counter electrode being arranged at a first facing surface of the first board and the other being arranged at a second facing surface of the second board facing the first facing surface, and the first facing surface of the first board being, fastened to a reference mounting surface provided at the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Akira Izumi, Takashi Ihara, Makoto Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10294543
    Abstract: A method for producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet by subjecting a slab of an inhibitor-less ingredient system containing C: 0.002-0.10 mass %, Si: 2.5-6.0 mass %, Mn: 0.010-0.8 mass % and extremely decreased Al, N, Se and S to hot rolling, hot band annealing, cold rolling, decarburization annealing, application of an annealing separator and finish annealing, when a certain temperature within range of 700-800° C. in a heating process of decarburization annealing is T1 and a certain temperature as a soaking temperature within a range of 820-900° C. is T2, a heating rate R1 between 500° C. and T1 is set to not less than 100° C./s and heating rate R2 between T1 and T2 is set to not more than 15° C./s, whereby grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having excellent iron loss property and coating peeling resistance is obtained in the inhibitor-less ingredient system while ensuring decarburization property even when rapid heating is performed during decarburization annealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Suehiro, Takashi Terashima, Makoto Watanabe, Toshito Takamiya, Takeshi Imamura
  • Patent number: 10294544
    Abstract: In a method for producing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet by subjecting a slab containing C: 0.002-0.10 mass %, Si: 2.5-6.0 mass %, Mn: 0.01-0.8 mass % and further containing Al and N, or S and/or Se, or Al, N, S and/or Se as inhibitor ingredients to hot rolling, hot band annealing, cold rolling, decarburization annealing, application of an annealing separator and finish annealing, when a certain temperature within a range of 700-800° C. in a heating process of the decarburization annealing is T1 and a certain temperature as a soaking temperature within a range of 820-900° C. is T2, a heating rate R1 between 500° C. and T1 is set to not less than 80° C./s and a heating rate R2 between T1 and T2 is set to not more than 15° C./s, whereby a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having excellent magnetic properties and peeling resistance of forsterite coating is obtained while ensuring decarburization property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: JFE STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryuichi Suehiro, Takashi Terashima, Makoto Watanabe, Toshito Takamiya
  • Publication number: 20190144012
    Abstract: The present invention provides a branching unit, the height of which can be reduced, and a vehicular system. The branching unit includes a switch equipped with a fixed electrode and a movable electrode; a first bushing conductor which is connected either to the fixed electrode or to the movable electrode; and a second bushing conductor which is connected to the other of the fixed electrode and the movable electrode. A first T-shaped cable head is connected at one end to the first bushing conductor, a second T-shaped cable head is connected to a different end part of the first T-shaped cable head from the one end, a third T-shaped cable head is connected at one end to the second bushing conductor, the first T-shaped cable head and the second T-shaped cable head are respectively connected to different circuits, and surfaces of the respective T-shaped cable heads and the switch are at a ground potential.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: Hitachi Industrial Equipment Systems Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takashi SATO, Kenji TSUCHIYA, Masato YABU, Makoto WATANABE, Yoshinori SHIMADA
  • Patent number: 10279596
    Abstract: A thermal head includes: a substrate; a heat generating section which is disposed on the substrate; a plurality of driving ICs including first and second driving ICs which are disposed on the substrate and electrically coupled to the heat generating section; and a cover member covering the first and second driving ICs. The cover member is disposed in an inter-driving IC region between the first driving IC and the second driving IC and above and below the inter-driving IC region, and includes a first void.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: KYOCERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arata Okayama, Hisatoshi Takada, Tatsuru Seto, Makoto Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10274826
    Abstract: A method for imparting water repellency to a surface of a member includes a step in which a material including a compound containing a fluorine atom is deposited on a surface of a photosensitive resin layer in order to form a member including a material layer; a first exposure step in which the member is exposed to an amount of light with an exposure apparatus in order to form a latent image in the member; a development step in which the member including the latent image is developed; and a second exposure step in which the member is exposed to an amount of light with an exposure apparatus subsequent to the development step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masataka Nagai, Yoshinori Tagawa, Shingo Nagata, Hiroyuki Murayama, Shuhei Oya, Makoto Watanabe
  • Patent number: 10241410
    Abstract: A method for imparting water repellency to a surface of a member includes a step in which a material including a compound containing a fluorine atom is deposited on a surface of a photosensitive resin layer in order to form a member including a material layer; a first exposure step in which the member is exposed to an amount of light with an exposure apparatus in order to form a latent image in the member; a development step in which the member including the latent image is developed; and a second exposure step in which the member is exposed to an amount of light with an exposure apparatus subsequent to the development step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masataka Nagai, Yoshinori Tagawa, Shingo Nagata, Hiroyuki Murayama, Shuhei Oya, Makoto Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190071793
    Abstract: The ratio of the coarse grain region in the side wall in the thickness direction thereof is 10% or more and less than 90%. The coarse grain region is defined as such a region in which crystal grains having a grain size of 1 mm or more determined by an intercept method in the height direction of the crucible occupy 95% or more of an area of a measurement region, and the fine grain region is defined as such a region in which crystal grains having a grain size of 10 ?m or more and 500 ?m or less determined by the intercept method in the height direction of the crucible occupy 95% or more of the area of the measurement region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2017
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Inventors: Makoto Watanabe, Yoshitake Fukaya, Masahiro Katoh, Hidenobu Nishino
  • Patent number: 10222761
    Abstract: An electronic watch or clock with an electrostatic induction generator, wherein the electrostatic induction generator has a rotary weight able to rotate with respect to a housing, a rotary member able to rotate with respect to the housing, a counter substrate fastened to the housing, a charging film arranged at one of the rotary member and counter substrate, and a counter electrode arranged facing the charging film at the other, outputs electric power generated between the charging film and the counter electrode to a quartz movement, and provides a window part at one or more locations among the dial plate, housing, or outside casing to enable rotation of the rotary member or transmission of rotation to be visually confirmed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: CITIZEN WATCH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Takashi Ihara, Akira Izumi, Makoto Watanabe
  • Publication number: 20190051533
    Abstract: To provide dummy openings having at least one of arrangement and shape determined depending on the shape of a non-effective region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Hirohisa Fujita, Kenji Fujii, Satoshi Ibe, Makoto Watanabe, Shuhei Oya, Yusuke Hashimoto